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Sunny Gavaskar
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar
Born: 10 July 1949, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Major Teams: Mumbai, Somerset, India.
Known As: Sunny Gavaskar
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium
Other: ICC Match Referee
Test Debut: India v West Indies at Port-of-Spain, 2nd Test, 1970/71
Last Test: India v Pakistan at Bangalore, 5th Test, 1986/87
ODI Debut: India v England at Leeds, Prudential Trophy, 1974
Last ODI: India v England at Bombay, World Cup, 1987/88
First Class Debut: Vazir Sultan Colt's XI v Dungarpur XI at Hyderabad, 1966/67
Last First Class Match: Rest of the World v M.C.C. at Lord's, 1987
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1980
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 125 214 16 10122 236* 51.12 34 45 108 0
Balls M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 380 15 206 1 206.00 1-34 0 0 380.0 3.25
ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 108 102 14 3092 103* 35.13 62.26 1 27 22 0
O M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 3.2 0 25 1 25.00 1-10 0 0 20.0 7.50
FIRST-CLASS
(career: 1966/67 - 1987)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 348 563 61 25834 340 51.46 81 105 293 0
Balls R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 1953 1240 22 56.36 3-43 0 0 88.7 3.80
LIST A LIMITED OVERS
(career: 1973/74 - 1987/88)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 135 128 16 4092 113 36.53 4 34 35 0
Balls R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 108 81 2 40.50 1-10 0 0 54.0 4.50
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
ICC Match Referee Record:
Test Debut: West Indies v England at Kingston, 1st Test, 1993/94
Test Appearances: 1
ODI Debut: West Indies v England at Bridgetown, 1st ODI, 1993/94
Latest ODI: West Indies v England at Port-of-Spain, 5th ODI, 1993/94
ODI Appearances: 5
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Sunil Gavaskar was a complete opening batsman. He combined a rock
solid defence with an ability to dispatch the bad ball for four.
For a part of his career, he eschewed the cut and the hook,
preferring to play within the "V". Though short in stature
(5'4"), his best strokes were drives off the front foot, to both
sides of the wicket. His success in his debut series in the West
Indies in 1971 (774 runs at 154.80) led Lord Relator to lament in
a calypso, "We couldn't out him at all!" For a large part of his
career, he seemed to stand between India and defeat. Some of his
best innings came in Indian losses, including 3 centuries in
Pakistan. During his career, he played a significant role as
India managed to score the highest 4th innings totals to win (102
out of 406/4), and tie (90 out of 347) a Test, and the second
highest to draw (221 out of 429/9) one. During his 221, he
personally added 179 on the last day, still the most runs scored
by an Indian in a single day of Test cricket.
In 1983-84, after a string of low scores against Marshall and the
West Indies, he decided to shed the shackles, and answered with a
94-ball century at Delhi. Four Tests later, the series lost 3-0, he came in at no. 4, with
India 0/2, and scored his 30th Test century, surpassing Don
Bradman's record of 29 tons. His 236* in that innings was India's
highest individual Test score until VVS Laxman made that
unforgettable 281 in the 2001 Kolkata Test against the
Australians.
Slow to adjust to one-day cricket, he scored 36* off 60 overs
against England in 1975. At the other end of the scale, his only
century, coming in his last but one one-day match, was off 85
balls. His captaincy appeared too defensive at times, perhaps
conditioned by his many solo battles as a batsman in defence of
India. The highlights of his captaincy were a 2-0 Test win over
Pakistan in 1979-80, and a win the World Championship of Cricket
in 1985.
After having battled speedsters around the world for 16 years,
his last Test innings was a classic display against spin bowling,
a 96 on a minefield at Bangalore. His safe catching in the slips
led to his being the first Indian (excluding wicket-keepers) to
take over a hundred catches. Early in his career, he occasionally
opened the bowling for India, which says more about India's
disregard for opening bowlers than anything else. After
retirement, he has been a popular, sometimes controversial
commentator, both on TV and in print (Uday Rajan, 1998).
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